new iov_iter flavour: pipe-backed

iov_iter variant for passing data into pipe.  copy_to_iter()
copies data into page(s) it has allocated and stuffs them into
the pipe; copy_page_to_iter() stuffs there a reference to the
page given to it.  Both will try to coalesce if possible.
iov_iter_zero() is similar to copy_to_iter(); iov_iter_get_pages()
and friends will do as copy_to_iter() would have and return the
pages where the data would've been copied.  iov_iter_advance()
will truncate everything past the spot it has advanced to.

New primitive: iov_iter_pipe(), used for initializing those.
pipe should be locked all along.

Running out of space acts as fault would for iovec-backed ones;
in other words, giving it to ->read_iter() may result in short
read if the pipe overflows, or -EFAULT if it happens with nothing
copied there.

In other words, ->read_iter() on those acts pretty much like
->splice_read().  Moreover, all generic_file_splice_read() users,
as well as many other ->splice_read() instances can be switched
to that scheme - that'll happen in the next commit.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <[email protected]>

Author: Al Viro

fs/splice.c

@@ -524,7 +524,7 @@ ssize_t generic_file_splice_read(struct file *in, loff_t *ppos,
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_file_splice_read);
 
-static const struct pipe_buf_operations default_pipe_buf_ops = {
+const struct pipe_buf_operations default_pipe_buf_ops = {
 	.can_merge = 0,
 	.confirm = generic_pipe_buf_confirm,
 	.release = generic_pipe_buf_release,

include/linux/splice.h

@@ -85,4 +85,5 @@ extern void splice_shrink_spd(struct splice_pipe_desc *);
 extern void spd_release_page(struct splice_pipe_desc *, unsigned int);
 
 extern const struct pipe_buf_operations page_cache_pipe_buf_ops;
+extern const struct pipe_buf_operations default_pipe_buf_ops;
 #endif

include/linux/uio.h

@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 #include <uapi/linux/uio.h>
 
 struct page;
+struct pipe_inode_info;
 
 struct kvec {
 	void *iov_base; /* and that should *never* hold a userland pointer */
@@ -23,6 +24,7 @@ enum {
 	ITER_IOVEC = 0,
 	ITER_KVEC = 2,
 	ITER_BVEC = 4,
+	ITER_PIPE = 8,
 };
 
 struct iov_iter {
@@ -33,8 +35,12 @@ struct iov_iter {
 		const struct iovec *iov;
 		const struct kvec *kvec;
 		const struct bio_vec *bvec;
+		struct pipe_inode_info *pipe;
+	};
+	union {
+		unsigned long nr_segs;
+		int idx;
 	};
-	unsigned long nr_segs;
 };
 
 /*
@@ -64,7 +70,7 @@ static inline struct iovec iov_iter_iovec(const struct iov_iter *iter)
 }
 
 #define iov_for_each(iov, iter, start)				\
-	if (!((start).type & ITER_BVEC))			\
+	if (!((start).type & (ITER_BVEC | ITER_PIPE)))		\
 	for (iter = (start);					\
 	     (iter).count &&					\
 	     ((iov = iov_iter_iovec(&(iter))), 1);		\
@@ -94,6 +100,8 @@ void iov_iter_kvec(struct iov_iter *i, int direction, const struct kvec *kvec,
 			unsigned long nr_segs, size_t count);
 void iov_iter_bvec(struct iov_iter *i, int direction, const struct bio_vec *bvec,
 			unsigned long nr_segs, size_t count);
+void iov_iter_pipe(struct iov_iter *i, int direction, struct pipe_inode_info *pipe,
+			size_t count);
 ssize_t iov_iter_get_pages(struct iov_iter *i, struct page **pages,
 			size_t maxsize, unsigned maxpages, size_t *start);
 ssize_t iov_iter_get_pages_alloc(struct iov_iter *i, struct page ***pages,
@@ -109,7 +117,7 @@ static inline size_t iov_iter_count(struct iov_iter *i)
 
 static inline bool iter_is_iovec(struct iov_iter *i)
 {
-	return !(i->type & (ITER_BVEC | ITER_KVEC));
+	return !(i->type & (ITER_BVEC | ITER_KVEC | ITER_PIPE));
 }
 
 /*